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The cost of office space in Bangalore is not high. Offshore developers are not some secret mystery that corporate managers have never heard from. If the benefi
by dcolkitt 5y ago
The cost of office space in Bangalore is not high. Offshore developers are not some secret mystery that corporate managers have never heard from.
If the benefits outweighed the cost, companies would have already offshored well before the pandemic. It’s not like WFH changes that calculus. If a BigCo would rather pay a programmer in Bangalore over one in Boise, than they almost certainly would also prefer him to one in Mountain View too.
- HelloNurse 5y agoAn offshore branch imposes a lot of inconveniently long distance work (set up and recruitment or acqui-hiring, and then management) on the "home" staff, while an offshore contractor is always high risk compared to a close one.